| Description |
1 online resource (99 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Why Metaphor Matters to Philosophy; Metaphor and the Expression of Emotion: The Value of Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Conceptual Integration and Formal Expression; Metaphor and Metaphysics; A Clearing in the Forest |
| Summary |
During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of their radical implications for metaphor research and because they require us to rethink some of our most fundamental received notions of meaning, concepts, and reason. Many of the theoretical assumptions that guided earlier generations who worked on metaphor have been undermined by this new research, which has profound implications for philosophy. More specifically, the level of methodological sophistication of empirical studies of metaphor ha |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Metaphor -- Philosophy
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Metaphor.
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metaphor.
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Metaphor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Mark, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9781317758969 |
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131775896X |
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